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Books - Articles - Videos - Collections - Oral Histories - Websites - Lesson Plans Cuba Books - Articles - Videos - Collections - Oral Histories - Websites - Lesson Plans Visit our Library Catalog for complete list of books, magazines, and videos. Related subject terms: Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro, Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Conspiracy Theories, Nikita Khrushchev, Robert F. Kennedy Books Ayers, Bradley Earl. The War That Never Was: An Insider's Account of the CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976. Bayard, James. The Real Story on Cuba. Derby, CN: Monarch Books, 1963. Chang, Laurence. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. New York: New Press, 1998. DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case. New York, NY: Sheridan Square Press, 1992. Dobbs, Michael. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Escalante Font, Fabian. JFK: The Cuba Files: The Untold Story of the Plot to Kill Kennedy. Melbourne, Victoria: Ocean Press, 2006. Baloyra, Enrique A. Conflict and Change in Cuba. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Johnson, Hayes. The Bay of Pigs: The Leaders' Story of Brigade 2506. Miami, FL.: International Aviation Consultants, 1993. Jones, Howard. The Bay of Pigs. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Kornbluh, Peter. Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba. New York, NY: The New Press, 1998. Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1969. May, Ernest R. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997. Stern Sheldon M. The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Rasenberger, Jim. The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs. New York: Scribner, 2011. Ratliff, William E. The Selling of Fidel Castro: The Media and the Cuban Revolution. New Brunswick, USA: Transaction Books, 1987. Thompson, Robert Smith. The Missiles of October: The Declassified Story of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Weisbrot, Robert. Maximum Danger: Kennedy, the Missiles, and the Crisis of American Confidence. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. back to top Articles "The Danger-filled Week of Decision Cuba." Life 2 Nov. 1962. Evan, Thomas. "RFK the Untold Story: His Secret Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis." Newsweek 14 Aug. 2000. "Inside Castro's Cuba." Life 15 Mar. 1963. Jones, John A., and Virginia H. Jones. "Through the Eye of the Needle: Five Perspectives on the Cuban Missile Crisis." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8.1 (2005): 133-144. Russo, Gus. "Did Castro OK Kennedy's Assassination?." American Heritage Winter 2009. Sidey, Hugh. "The Lesson John Kennedy Learned from the Bay of Pigs." Time 16 Apr. 2001. Sorensen, Theodore. "Kennedy vs. Khrushchev the Showdown in Cuba." Look 7 Sept. 1965. back to top Videos Cuba the 40 Years War. Peter Melaragno, 2002. JFK from the Solomon Islands to the Bay of Pigs. A&E Television Networks, 2009. The Missiles of October. MPI Home Video, 2004. Thirteen Days. New Line Home Entertainment, 2000. back to top Collections For more information about the Museum's collections, visit www.jfk.org/go/collections. Bay of Pigs Museum Collection Object number: 2001.023.0001 TSFM Resource Guide: Cuba - Updated 7/6/2011- Page 2 Description: Fully detailed model of the airplanes flown by the US in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The plane is grey with black, blue, red, and white detailing. The stand is wood and metal. James Cron Collection Object number: 2007.012.0014 Description: Photographic copy of the front and back of a Dallas unit of the U.S. Air Force Reserve activation order issued October 28, 1962 by direction of President Kennedy during the Cuba Missile Crisis. Curatorial Remarks: The 12 photographs and 5 documents all relate to Kennedy's assassination, from the Dallas Sheriff's Department. James Cron, a Forensic Identification Consultant, has 48 years' experience in physical evidence, crime scene search, fingerprints, crime scene analysis and law enforcement instruction. He retired as a lieutenant in the Dallas county, Texas Sheriff's Department. He served 29 years (1964-1993). Cron worked 6 years (1958-1964) as a civilian for the Dallas, Texas Police Department in the crime scene section, records and jail office. Jeanne Reilly Collection Object number: 2000.048.0139 Description: Cuban Missile Crisis Postcards. Photo courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library. 2 identical photo postcards of aerial shots of Cuban missile silos, a Russian letter, and specially engraved desk calendars that JFK gave his advisors. Julia Knecht Collection Collection number: 1995.012 Description: The Knecht Collection contains several thousand items kept by Knecht, the personal assistant to former Major General Edwin Walker. Walker, a controversial, conservative Army general, was reprimanded for distributing John Birch Society literature to his troops in violation of Army regulations. At the request of President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara relieved Walker of his duties, whereupon Walker resigned. He continued his right-wing political reviews from his home in Dallas and launched a failed bid for Texas governor in 1962. A year later, Walker was shot at by Lee Harvey Oswald, just seven months prior to the Kennedy assassination; the shot missed, and Walker wasn't hurt. Most of the Knecht Collection is post-1961 and contains Knecht's notes, ads, photos, films and numerous clippings and publications relating to Walker. The collection continues into the 1980s, when she retired. Some of the collection items were presumably Walker's, but most are believed to be Knecht's. Wayne Harrison Collection Object numbers: 2009.015.0001.0039 and 2009.015.0001.0088 Description: Texas AP Wire Copy Tear Sheets From KNER-FM. Contains a description of the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy's dealings with Cuba, Castro and Khrushchev. (Date: 11/22/1963) Other Collection Items: Object number: 2000.028.0001 Description: One silver "Crusade to Free Cuba" commemorative coin minted in April of 1961. On one side of the coin is a cross with a Cuban flag and on the reverse is a soldier running through a battlefield. TSFM Resource Guide: Cuba - Updated 7/6/2011- Page 3 Object number: 2000.034.0003 Description: One political button/pin with a white background and the words "To Hell with Fidel" in blue and red. Object number: 2000.037.0001 Description: One flag that is a replica of the Brigada Asalto 2506 that represented the men who fought at ath Bay of Pigs. The flag is yellow with a blue border. There is a man running at the center with a knife in blue and a banner over his head with the words "Brigada Asalto" cut out and the number 2506 to his right. Object number: 2010.042.0004 Description: Original White House press release with transcript of a letter from President John F. Kennedy to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Dated 28 October 1962, the release begins, "I am replying at once to your broadcast message of October twenty- eight, even though the official text has not yet reached me, because of the great importance I attach to moving forward promptly to the settlement of the Cuban crisis." Press release is a single-sided, one-page document. Heading at top of document reads: " IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 28, 1962 Office of the White House Press Secretary - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE WHITE HOUSE TEXT OF A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY TO CHAIRMAN KHRUSHCHEV " Full text of the message follows, requesting that measures be taken to discuss disarmament and precaution against war. back to top Oral Histories For more information about the Oral History Collection, visit http://www.jfk.org/go/collections/oral-histories. Eileen Albert A home economics teacher in 1963, Albert visited the Capitol Rotunda on the weekend of the assassination to pay her respects to President Kennedy. At that time, her parents were participating in "Operation Peter Pan," caring for a twelve-year-old Cuban girl for one year until her mother could settle in Miami. Recorded July 1, 2010. Esteban Caras A member of Assault Brigade 2506, Caras served as part of the Bay of Pigs invasion force. Recorded October 29, 2000. Ruben Esquivel Currently a member of the Dallas County Historical Foundation's board of directors, Esquivel was a native Cuban who fled his homeland when Fidel Castro came to power. Recorded September 15 and October 29, 2000. TSFM Resource Guide: Cuba - Updated 7/6/2011- Page 4 Carlos Fonts A longtime Dallas businessman, Fonts was a Cuban native living in exile in Florida when he joined the Bay of Pigs invasion force. Recorded November 27, 2000. Hector Garcia A native Cuban who fled his homeland when Fidel Castro came to power, Garcia became an active community leader in Dallas. Recorded September 27 and October 29, 2000. Rene Gonzalez A member of Assault Brigade 2506, Gonzalez served as part of the Bay of Pigs invasion force. Recorded October 29, 2000. Robert MacNeil A veteran broadcast journalist, MacNeil covered the Cuban missile crisis from inside Cuba and, as a White House correspondent for NBC, covered President Kennedy in 1963. He was in the Dallas motorcade on November 22 and phoned NBC from the Texas School Book Depository building within minutes of the shooting. Recorded April 16, 2004. Delia Reyes A Cuban native now living in Dallas, Reyes fled her homeland when Fidel Castro came to power. Recorded September 18 and October 29, 2000. Felix Rodriguez A member of Assault Brigade 2506, Rodriguez served as part of the Bay of Pigs invasion force.
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